Author Archives: Timothy Burke

Take a Ride on the Meme Train

Posted on June 24, 2005 by Timothy Burke

Ok, so Laura inflicted this one on me. Do you ever read those stuffy book lists you see circulating, like ‘List your five most important books,’ and think to yourself- no wonder these people are so damned boring. Some of … Continue reading →

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I’m So Old-Fashioned

Posted on June 24, 2005 by Timothy Burke

It’s quaint of me. While I normally wouldn’t spare a thought about Tom Cruise, the fact that he’s going around claiming to know the history of psychology and psychiatry, and that said knowledge appears to consist of bullshit distortions straight … Continue reading →

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Batman Begins

Posted on June 23, 2005 by Timothy Burke

The only bad thing about seeing Batman Begins in Vancouver before the DiGRA conference was reading the silly assholes in some Canadian newspaper do some dialogue thing about the film where they talked about how insanely great the Burton films … Continue reading →

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African-American History and the Philadelphia Schools

Posted on June 23, 2005 by Timothy Burke

[cross-posted at Cliopatria] Back from a long trip, I read with interest in yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer of a debate over the plan to make African-American history a requirement in Philadelphia’s high school curriculum. The debate has been particularly ignited by … Continue reading →

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Cool Pizza!

Posted on June 23, 2005 by Timothy Burke

There was a brief item in the NY Times food section this week about Waldy Malouf’s new pizza joint in Chelsea. Sounds fantastic: the two toppings they mentioned in the article were: 1) Braised lamb, roasted lemon 2) Arugula, garlic, … Continue reading →

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Now I Guess I Have to Buy a Sports Car

Posted on June 23, 2005 by Timothy Burke

Well, that was a good trip: two interesting conferences, some fun in between, family and friends along the way. I loved most of the places we visited, both cities and wilder areas. Try as I might to feel otherwise, the … Continue reading →

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Don’t Pet the Hyena

Posted on June 23, 2005 by Timothy Burke

The main question with Zimbabwe now is the question we used to ask about Sani Abacha’s regime in Nigeria: namely, how bad can it get? As low as Zimbabwe has sunk lately, there are still further depths to mine. It … Continue reading →

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It’s a Good Good (Bad Bad) World

Posted on June 6, 2005 by Timothy Burke

A quick thought that I may try to rework more thoroughly later. Boulette’s Larder pleased me partially because the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food influences there were so deep and so obviously the product of thorough study and understanding. The … Continue reading →

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The Good Stuff: Details

Posted on June 6, 2005 by Timothy Burke

This morning we had breakfast at Boulette’s Larder. Scrambled eggs with buttery fried bread crumbs on top, an idea I’ve never seen before that works really well. I bought some really interesting spice mixes–one of them a barbecue rub with … Continue reading →

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The Good Stuff

Posted on June 5, 2005 by Timothy Burke

A quick stop in Vegas to be part of a roundtable of very cool people on virtual worlds. Played limit hold’em for about four hours–first time I’ve done that outside of home games, and I did pretty well, though I … Continue reading →

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